Source: NY Times.
By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK and JIM YARDLEY
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh had yet another day of bloodshed on Sunday, as at least 19 people died in angry skirmishes between the police and supporters of the country’s biggest Islamist political party. The supporters were protesting the recent convictions of their leaders by a special tribunal prosecuting accused war criminals from the country’s 1971 struggle for liberation.
The latest violence occurred outside the national capital, Dhaka, and seemed certain to deepen the already bitter tensions between the country’s leading political parties. In the district of Bogra, the government temporarily deployed military units on Sunday after followers of the country’s biggest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, attacked a local police station, the authorities said. At least nine people died in Bogra.
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